Cloud Superstream: Super Cloud, Multicloud, and Hybrid Cloud

Schedule

The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.

Sam Newman: Introduction (5 minutes) - 8:00am PT | 11:00am ET | 3:00pm UTC/GMT

• Sam Newman welcomes you to the Cloud Superstream.

Tejas Chopra: Upskilling in a Multicloud World (45 minutes) - 8:05am PT | 11:05am ET | 3:05pm UTC/GMT

• Different organizations use different cloud offerings. For example, Box is built on top of Google Cloud, Netflix heavily uses AWS, and so on. Some organizations are even using multiple cloud platforms within their organizations. To stay competitive in this landscape, software developers need to be aware of the different clouds and learn the nuances of each. Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud share a lot of commonalities in how they’re implemented on the backend and in the services and SLAs they expose to applications built on top of them. Tejas Chopra covers concepts that apply to all cloud environments, from basic ideas around storage, compute, and networking to serverless, and he provides a taste of how software development in the cloud varies between organizations such as Box and Netflix.
• Tejas Chopra is an engineering leader at Netflix working on building solutions for Netflix Studios in the cloud. He’s a TEDx and international speaker, sharing his experience with cloud computing, engineering leadership, blockchain, the metaverse, and more. He has more than a decade of experience architecting backend software at companies such as Box, Apple, Samsung, and Cadence.

Lori Mac Vittie: Making Supercloud a Reality—Two Different Approaches (Sponsored by F5) (30 minutes) - 8:50am PT | 11:50am ET | 3:50pm UTC/GMT

• Year after year, surveys speak of the frustration practitioners feel while managing multicloud deployments. The complexity of tools and APIs continues to drive up costs and the blood pressure of those tasked with taming it. Supercloud has been proposed as a solution, but what does that even mean? Lori Mac Vittie answers that question and explores two different approaches to making the supercloud a reality.
• Lori Mac Vittie is a distinguished engineer and chief evangelist in F5’s Office of the CTO with an emphasis on emerging technologies including cloud and edge computing, digital transformation, and application security and delivery. She has nearly 30 years of industry experience in application development, IT architecture, and network and systems operation. Mac Vittie holds a master’s degree in computer science and is a prolific author whose books span security, cloud, and enterprise architecture.
• This session will be followed by a 30-minute demo session in a breakout room. Ranjini Rajendran, principal product manager for multicloud networking for F5 Distributed Cloud, will discuss overcoming networking and security challenges of multicloud and hybrid cloud applications with F5 Distributed Cloud. Join Ranjini to learn how F5 Distributed Cloud addresses these real-world challenges, offering multicloud networking with end-to-end simplicity and security.
• Break (10 minutes)

Chrystal Taylor: The Evolution of Monitoring to Observability for Hybrid Cloud (45 minutes) - 9:30am PT | 12:30pm ET | 4:30pm UTC/GMT

• Accelerated digital transformation has led to complex environments with infrastructure and applications hosted on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment. Visibility remains as important as ever, and monitoring is a key to achieving visibility. But monitoring is no longer enough. Observability takes monitoring and applies artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to augment your teams’ ability to keep things in the “green” state they want to see. Chrystal Taylor takes you through how SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability meets this need.
• Chrystal Taylor is a dedicated technologist who leverages her curiosity to solve problems, focusing on capacity planning, server architecture, and troubleshooting. A SolarWinds deployment veteran, she’s built a successful, decade-long IT career by translating client needs into optimized and performant systems and customizing deployments to ensure systems grow in tandem with user needs.
• Break (5 minutes)

Neil Carpenter: The Challenges of Securing and Monitoring Multicloud Applications (Sponsored by Orca Security) (30 minutes) 10:20am PT | 1:20pm ET | 5:20pm UTC/GMT

• Whether by design or happenstance, many companies find themselves deploying and maintaining applications in multiple cloud providers. Join Orca’s Neil Carpenter for a frank discussion of the challenges in securing and monitoring those applications from the design phase clear through to production. You’ll look at the unique security challenges of multicloud deployments and discover how to build strategies to address them.
• As Orca's principal technical evangelist, Neil Carpenter helps organizations identify and contain security risks in their cloud estates. His passion for getting ahead of security problems comes from over a decade spent leading customer-facing security incident response teams at Microsoft and seeing what happens when attackers win. Previously, Neil helped build the future of cloud native security at Twistlock, StackRox, and Torq. When he's not in front of a computer, he’s an avid NYC-based street photographer.
• This session will be followed by a 30-minute Q&A in a breakout room. Stop by if you have more questions for Neil.
• Break (5 minutes)

Amanda Blevins: ​​Implementing an Efficient and Cost-Effective Multicloud Strategy (45 minutes) - 10:55am PT | 1:55pm ET | 5:55pm UTC/GMT

• Join Amanda Blevins to discover how implementing an efficient and cost-effective multicloud strategy can help IT quickly deliver new capabilities aligned with changing business needs, particularly in this time of economic uncertainty. Along the way, Amanda will explore why businesses need to be agile and adapt to new organizational needs; how IT teams may end up getting spread thin while using different toolsets and processes to run, manage, and secure workloads in a variety of clouds (and what to do about it); why it’s so critical to consider security and governance across private and public clouds; and more.
• Amanda Blevins is vice president and CTO, Americas, at VMware, enabling customers and partners to achieve their business objectives by cocreating a comprehensive technology strategy with executive leaders. She focuses on cloud, edge, and emerging technologies and is passionate about innovation and enabling cross-functional teams to be successful in their creative efforts. Amanda also leads the Office of the CTO Global Field Programs that develop technical talent. As VMware’s first and only female chief technologist, she leverages her experience and network to drive awareness and equality for women and all underrepresented people in technology fields.

Sam Newman: Closing Remarks (5 minutes) - 11:40am PT | 2:40pm ET | 6:40pm UTC/GMT

• Sam Newman closes out today’s event.

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